Improved solution for saturating natural and artificial stone



COMPO ylUhSTI'IUTED FoR mssmo cow. Examiner 8 comma 0R PLASTIC UNITED STATES To all whom it may ooncer'n:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. VAN DER- BUBGH, of New York city, in the county and useful Composition to be used in the Formation or Saturation of Artificial Building-Stones;

- and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and cleardescriptiou thereof.

' My improved composition is formed by the intimatedadlmixtnrt of liquid silicate with a saturate so utiono lime-watjegmproportions .of one gallon of silicate 0 rom three to six gallons of lime-water, the proportions varying according as the composition is to be used in v the formation of building-blocks or for the saturation of artificial or natural stones.

State of New York, have invented a new and In the formation of artificial stones at much of silicate is required than PATENT OFFICE.

GEO. 'E. VAN DEBBURGH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVED SOLUTION FOR SATURATING NATURAL AIID ARTIFICIAL STONE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 48,747, dated July 11, 1865.

thereto, although an ordinary saturated-sola 'tion of lime will alone answer my purpose.

I contemplate using this silicaterlcomposition in moistening the admixed lime and sand used in the formation of the so-ca le block and as an ingredient in' any and all forms of artificial building materials, as well as a at w 'i h to di and ate-bricks an all descrl tious, or a amt or lime, will completely fill the interstices in any mass to which it inay be applied or with which it is combined, making the mass or surface harder and tougher.

, What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The within-described silicated composition ,for the purpose of saturating natural or artificial stones, or as an ingredient in the formation of the latter, substantially as hereiuset forth.

-GEO., E. Witnesses:

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is composition, forming a pure silicate of YAN DERBURGH'. 

